華裔美國女作傢伍慧明(Fae Myenne Ng)齣生於美國舊金山唐人街，其父母都是華人移民。她的處女座《骨》(Bone)暢銷全美，得到評論界的廣泛好評，獲得過多種奬項，並入選1994年福剋納筆會決選書單。她的短篇小說曾入選多部作品集.

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In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, to a world of family secrets, hidden shames, and the lost bones of a "paper father." It is a world in which two generations of the Leong family live in an uneasy tension as they try to fathom the source of the middle daughter Ona's sorrow. Fae Myenne Ng's portraits of the everyday heroism of the Leongs--who inflict deep hurt on each other in their struggles to survive, yet sustain one another with loyalty and love--have made "Bone" one of the most critically acclaimed novels of recent years and immediately a classic of contemporary American life.